Article Text
Womens health
Randomised controlled trial
Care from health visitors trained in psychological intervention methods may prevent depression in mothers not depressed 6 weeks postnatally
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Implications for practice and research
▪ Nurses and midwives who provide postnatal care need to receive training in identification and psychological intervention methods to prevent depression.
▪ They will need to provide more visits to all mothers within the first 12-month postdelivery.
▪ Further randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in this area should utilise midwives/health visitors (HVs) as the administrators of the intervention.
▪ They should also seek control for the increased number of contacts associated with interventions of this nature.
▪ There is a need for further RCTs in postnatal care to disentangle the effects of perceived support, the therapeutic relationship and the psychological intervention.
Context
Approximately 13% of mothers …
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Competing interests None.